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Reading Ezra 9-10 as Christian Scripture
… attitudes to the Law through the story of Ezra 9-10 and its Torah interpretation, in dialogue with Jewish exegetical tradition, and offers a framework for reading this difficult text from a Christian perspective. The first part of the dissertation juxtaposes some Christian and Jewish …
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Ezra Pound's City: The Total Light Process
<p>Ezra Pound became infatuated with the beauty of Venice when he traveled through Europe with his Aunt Frank as a young man of twelve. The sensibility expressed by the stones of Venice became an inspiration to which he gravitated for the rest of his life: "I first saw Venice in 1898 and have …
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"Ego, scriptor cantilenae": The Cantos and Ezra Pound
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Restoration: An Oratorio Based on Ezra and Nehemiah
… Restoration, an oratorio based on the story of Ezra and Nehemiah. I came to this story for several reasons: first, though comprising a unique moment in Old Testament history, it has not been told through music. More importantly, I believed that the themes of this story were ones that needed to …
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Ezra Pound and the rhetoric of science, 1901-1922
This thesis identifies science as Ezra Pound’s first extended extra-poetic interest. This reference to science in Pound’s poetic theory and poetry is portrayed as rhetoric, with its emphasis on the linguistic signifier or word rather than the actual concepts and data of science. The material covers …
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The Canto of Ezra Pound as a Process Model
<p>The discipline of the scientific method has directed human thinking and learning not only in what are called the hard sciences,, but also, particularly within the last century, in the less predictable areas of human understanding and behavior. For scientific study of such fields, human …
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On Ezra Pound's Translation of Classical Chinese Poetry in Cathay
This thesis focuses on Ezra Pound's translation of Classical Chinese Poetry in Cathay. A comparative study of Pound's translations with the original Chinese poems and versions by other translators is conducted. The theoretical framework adopted is Toury's (1995) Descriptive Translation Studies …
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Ezra Ayers Carman: The Gatekeeper of Memory at Antietam National Battlefield
Ezra Ayers Carman was a veteran of Antietam who was employed by the War Department in the last decade of the nineteenth century to write the official history of that battle. As an historian, Carman acted as a gatekeeper of the official memory at Antietam. He created scaffolding in which veterans …
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Aphrodite as Acorn: Method and Message in the Cantos of Ezra Pound
… of the goddess Aphrodite in The Cantos of Ezra Pound mark the most beautiful passages of the poem. Both enchanted and challenged, I begin this paper. I will do three things.</p> <p>First, I will survey the critical work on the role of Aphrodite written over the last twenty years. …
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The Reimagination of the House of God in the Book of Ezra-Nehemiah
This thesis examines how the legal exegesis of Ezra-Nehemiah portrays the house of God. I will explore how four topics are repurposed and belong together to reimagine the house of God in the postexilic period: 1) resumption of cultic worship (Ezra 3:1-13; 6:16-22; Neh 10:33-35), 2) provision of …
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The Mosaic Negative: Ahrt-Voik and Antisemitism in Ezra Pound's Work and Thought
… relationship between artwork and antisemitism in Ezra Pound’s work and thought, arguing that Pound’s anti-Jewish prejudice was inextricably entwined with his views on artwork and the socially conscious artist. My first chapter opens by examining Pound’s Vorticist writings, focusing on how his …
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The role of imperial decrees in Ezra-Nehemiah : an ideological and exegetical analysis
… of the role of the imperial decrees of Persia in Ezra- Nehemiah (hereafter E-N). The imperial decrees, to date, have not been considered to play any significant role in both the compilation and the interpretation of E-N because they have been analysed, almost exclusively, in terms of their …
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An evaluation of the cumulative value of the theories regarding the temporal priority of either Ezra or Nehemiah
… the long discussed issue of the dating of Ezra's arrival in Jerusalem. It recognises that there is little new evidence to add to the discussion, but considers the evidence from a new perspective, as an overview. The work addresses the inter-relationship of the different issues that are …
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